How to Use meticulous in a Sentence

meticulous

adjective
  • He described the scene in meticulous detail.
  • He is meticulous about keeping accurate records.
  • Next came the meticulous glass work.
    — Marah Eakin, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2026
  • George is very meticulous in the studio and has his own process.
    — Matt Wake, AL.com, 10 Apr. 2018
  • The meticulous process takes from half an hour to an hour per person.
    — Joohee Cho, ABC News, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Craft bartenders tend to think about drinks in a meticulous way.
    — Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2020
  • All of the above is a how years' worth of meticulous planning goes up in flames.
    — Andrew Sharp, SI.com, 16 June 2019
  • In all his planning, the groom had been meticulous.
    — Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN Money, 6 June 2026
  • Koenig is a meticulous lyricist, not one of those say-any-old-thing types.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Vincent was meticulous at the script stage.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Their meticulous work was a reminder to me of the beauty of those lights.
    — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 14 July 2018
  • As a neighbor, he was known for taking meticulous care of his lawn.
    — Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2018
  • There had to be a degree of care and meticulous planning.
    — Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Hafley will tell you that this is a meticulous process that has many tentacles.
    — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 3 June 2026
  • Cursed with cold hands, Edelen is meticulous about his pregame warmup.
    — J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal, 24 Dec. 2021
  • No one to fill a meticulous, minute-by-minute schedule for the first team media day.
    — Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 8 May 2026
  • Maybe such meticulous data mining pays off—but maybe not.
    — Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Styles’s music does not require such a meticulous deep dive.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2026
  • But as the film soon makes clear thanks to its meticulous detail, there is in fact an answer of a kind.
    — Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 18 Feb. 2021
  • Colleagues around the world sent her meticulous seismic records.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Mar. 2026
  • That went to a meticulous move of flooding them, to bring them in line with the original.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Be meticulous about scrubbing the underside of the rim, as well as the trap.
    — Susannah Herrada, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Even the most meticulous training cannot quite capture the duress of the finals.
    — Jared Weiss, New York Times, 14 June 2026
  • As any Winslow reader will tell you, the man is a meticulous researcher.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The home is also filled with priceless royal items that will need to be cleaned with meticulous care.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 3 Nov. 2020
  • All of this involves meticulous planning, which has been in the works since early spring.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Of course the back end is so important now, and all of that has to be worked out in meticulous detail.
    — Adrienne Westenfeld, Town & Country, 9 Sep. 2015
  • All of them went to prison for bank robbery, despite meticulous plans that sometimes took years to hatch.
    — Dugan Arnett, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Nov. 2022
  • As long as the virus continues to spread unchecked, even the most meticulous plans seem doomed to failure.
    — Tim Dahlberg, Star Tribune, 27 July 2020
  • Ian is a record keeper, a meticulous preserver of the past.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2026

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